Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

optical telescope

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.58 in modern English

Syllables: op-ti-cal te-le-scope
IPA

24

Scrabble Score

16

Letters

5

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

An instrument, used both for recreational and scientific purposes, which provides a magnified view of distant objects by collecting and focusing light by means of mirrors and/or optical lenses.

Example Sentences

""How did the universe begin?" . . . . [W]ithin a few years the new giant radio telescopes, which enable man to probe far deeper into interstellar space than the biggest optical telescope, will provide some sort of an answer."
"Simply by being the largest optical telescope ever placed above Earth's obscuring atmosphere, the Hubble Space Telescope has yielded spectacular images of cosmic grandeur."
"An optical telescope based on a liquid mirror with an aperture of 20 to 100 metres located on the Moon would be able to observe objects 100 to 1,000 times fainter than the proposed next generation of space telescopes."

Inflected Forms

optical telescopes (plural)

Phrases

radio telescope X-ray telescope

Frequently Paired Words

radio telescope X-ray telescope

Questions

What does optical telescope mean?: An instrument, used both for recreational and scientific purposes, which provides a magnified view of distant objects by collecting and focusing light by means of mirrors and/or optical lenses.

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